Descriptive Estimate for Taking down and Rebuilding the
Bridge
over the RiverAt Pyle in the Parish of
Hanwell
Take off the Gravel and char away all the wood work
and Build a new Bridge of the same Construction as at Present, Of die
square Oak (The growth of this County) and free from sap. The Scantlings
as follows
Beams ten by eight, Piles nine feet long on an average nine by nine
and shod with Iron No Nine forst eight by four Cover the same with
there inch Plank spik's down, Sode Planks three inches Thick and twelve
inches wide plaind on one side, Oak Plank three incles Thick and three
feet do [..] A receive the earth at Appreaoches of Bridge
, Oak Pass wrought
and framd into beams five feet long six by four to receive fir plain'd fraud
and rounded top rail six by four and Sir middle rail four by three
andre frame and Six the old braces to support the posts, Put on three Iron
Caps each side bridge to clip the top rail and nail down on each side the
Pests, Lay down the old Grovch
and provide and make good the defecency
with new clean Sifted Gravel, Refix a rail with some of the old Street
from
the Post at the North and South side, to the old finces
Pat denrs Campshed Thirty six feet in lenght and two fet six inches deep
on a mean on one side of the bridge
, and fifteen feet in length and fourfeet deep
on a mean (of two and half Oak plant) to the other said of the bridge
with Oak piles four feet distance six by four every [..] cer one to run up and serve
as a Post with Sir Top and middle roul as to bridge, and make good the gravel
Carrd Over.